Pamela Coles

Pamela is Chief Governance Officer of Rolls-Royce Holdings plc and as such is responsible for providing strong governance and company law support, advice and services to the Board, the Executive Team and the Group. Pamela chairs the Rolls-Royce Group Charitable Contributions and Social Sponsorships Committee and she is also a member of the Group’s Environment and Sustainability Committee. Pamela is an Executive Committee member of the GC100 and a non-executive director and Remuneration Committee chair of E-Act. multi-academy trust.

Pamela has held a variety of company secretary roles throughout her career and joined Rolls-Royce in 2014 from Centrica plc where she was head of secretariat. Prior to that appointment, Pamela was company secretary and a member of the executive committee at the Rank Group plc and company secretary and head of legal at RAC plc.

Pamela has been a fellow of The Chartered Governance Institute since 1997 and a member since 1992. She graduated from Oxford Brookes University with a BA Honours degrees in Law and Sociology.